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Most of the 1,000 different eucalyptus tree varieties are native to Australia but not all belong in a pristine wetland.

In spring in the northern hemisphere, Blake Whitney trains alongside the best baseballers in the world but in the off-season he's just another player in Alice Springs.

Mick and Ben Hewitt often do business in boardrooms, but it is clear the brothers are truly content in the dust and dirt.

Blake Whitney has followed his wife to the NT for her work, and he's thriving in Red Centre.

After months of turmoil that have sparked concerns for its funding, the board of NAAJA has defended itself amid suggestions the organisation is unable to do its job.

The NT government has committed to rolling out a specialist mental health education framework in all of its schools from next year. Tailored to the needs of territory kids, teachers and principals say it helps support the "emotional wellbeing" of students.

An Aboriginal corporation in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek is facing allegations it misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funding. 

A year on from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to Alice Springs, progress on alcohol-related harm and violence remains an uphill battle.

A Katherine resident is concerned about the quality of information collected by government investigators after it took four days for them to get to the site of a Northern Territory fish kill.

There are calls for an ASIC investigation after an Indigenous pensioner was charged an annual insurance premium of almost $10,000 by QBE for an asbestos-clad home in a remote town in Western Australia.

Just months away from an election where crime will be a pressing issue for voters, the NT opposition leader has a message for young offenders: "If you don't want to have a spit hood put on you, then don't spit on our frontline workers". 

Despite blanket alcohol bans being reimposed on Aboriginal town camps and communities, progress on alcohol-related harm and violence remains an uphill battle in Alice Springs.

With access to precious cultural and linguistic knowledge on country for the first time, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies has expanded its reach outside Canberra.

In an exclusive interview with Stateline NT, Eva Lawler has expressed concern about her chances of winning her own electorate, citing a redistribution that has brought in constituents from the neighbouring electorate held by the conservative opposition.

Police said a 48-year-old woman was struck by a sedan while walking along Gap Road in Alice Springs in September 2023, before the driver allegedly fled the scene. 

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge over whether the NT government acted lawfully when it awarded one of the largest groundwater licences in Australia's history.

A mother-of-four in the Northern Territory says it makes more sense for her to drive 150 kilometres to a larger town than shop for groceries locally.

As bike entries open for this year's Finke Desert Race, organisers blame cost of living pressures and fears about crime in Alice Springs for a decline in sign-ups.

More than a year after alleged unpermitted land clearing was uncovered at Claravale Station, the NT government's planning minister says he is taking the matter to court. 

As youth crime continues to dominate Alice Springs headlines, young people say rap classes are giving them a positive outlet.

Three Central Australians have been recognised for their contributions to the Alice Springs community at an Australia Day ceremony, which also saw 48 new Australians welcomed to the community as citizens.

She is one of Australia's most celebrated and collected artists, but her identity and her art have long been misunderstood. This major exhibition wants to set the record straight.

Jared Porch is serving a four-year-and-nine-month jail sentence with a non-parole period of 18 months, after pleading guilty to grooming men and offering them money in exchange for sexually explicit videos that included children.

The Northern Territory government says the quiet appointment of Central Australia's regional controller to a second position will not hinder her search for solutions to the crime crisis. 

As the NT government sits on a major emissions projection report, experts say the expansion of the NT gas industry could blow out the territory's emissions bill to a "staggering" levels and create problems for Australia's pathway to net zero.